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7 Ways Leaders Can Celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Week

In our busy world, it can be challenging to make time to advance your innovation agenda and cultivate the creativity in the people around you. The development of new thinking, new ideas, and new actions often winds up on the back burner. So why not leverage World Creativity and Innovation Week (April 15-21) to gain …

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Design Thinking Exercise and Guide for WCIW

Are you looking for a 20-minute World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 activity? This Ready-Set-Design activity from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum of the Smithsonian may fit the bill.   [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXSuZg2awA] This is a highly adaptable design challenge that can jump-start collaborative and creative thinking in any group. They say it is …

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Let Your Frontline Workers Be Creative

We know that creativity and innovation fuel new products, services, even strategies. But too many executives make the mistake of assuming creativity is just reserved for a certain department or just the white-collar knowledge-workers in their firms. New research shows how important it is for all employees to be creative, even if they’re not high …

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Brewing Innovation at University of Michigan through across campus random coffee meet-ups

Innovate Brew is a first-of-its-kind program that randomly matches U-M faculty for 30-minute coffee meetings once a month to foster more innovative thinking on campus.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2TC_zlCFhA] So simple an idea.  Perhaps an initiative to begin at your workplace for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21?   Random coffee meet-ups spurring innovation across …

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Are we heading for a mass "sixth extinction" event? — We Are Already in the Middle of the Sixth Extinction by Erik Loomis — Aeon Ideas

We are already in the middle of the Sixth Extinction. Perhaps it began around 10,000 years ago with the end of the Pleistocene Era. As people migrated into the middle of the North American continent for the first time with the end of the last ice … Sourced through Scoop.it from: ideas.aeon.co Good reason to …

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Look for Invisible Potential

Individual and collective creativity are the motors of innovation. To prepare for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21, 2016 Look at how creative your people can be and what the conditions are to make them creative. See your situation and resources with new eyes, transcend away confrontational style of communication to an …

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